Artículos

Achieving carbon neutrality and reducing global temperature rise below 2 °C necessitates shifting from conventional energy to renewable energy and ensuring sustainable use of natural resources. However, economic, political, and financial risks significantly impact renewable energy investments and natural resources' sustainable utilization. Thus, it is necessary to understand the roles of political, economic, and financial risk when assessing the impacts of natural resources, green energy use, and economic growth on pollutant emissions.

The development of the financial sector is one of the main macroeconomic goals for developing countries as well as developed ones. The literature focusing on the determinants of financial sector development presents very diverse and inconsistent results. Therefore, the main aim of the study is to empirically investigate the long run and causal linkages between natural resources, economic growth, savings, current account balance and financial sector development for 33 developing countries.

China has experienced rapid economic growth in recent decades. The benefits of economic growth are indisputable. However, risks are also generated that can jeopardize the sustainability of economic progress. Real estate bubbles, for example. The rapidly soaring house prices are one of the severe challenges in China in recent years. The real estate tax, monetary policy, and macro-prudential policy are the three main measures of the Chinese government to stabilize house prices.

Since the inception of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Next 11 (N11) countries are facing difficulties in attaining the SDG objectives, as maintaining the environmental quality has been a challenge for them. In this study, we have revisited the technology policies of these countries, and in doing so, we have tried to address the problem of environmental degradation, while addressing the issues of sustained economic growth, clean and affordable energy, and quality education.

Youth unemployment is one of the main problems facing the globalized world, therefore, the present research focuses on evaluating the impact on youth unemployment of the Organic Law for the Promotion of Youth Work, Exceptional Regulation of Working Hours, Unemployment and Unemployment Insurance (LOTJ) passed in 2016. Control variables referring to the social, economic, demographic and cultural conditions faced by young people aged 18 to 26 during the period 2007-2020 are included.

El presente estudio tiene como objetivo evaluar el impacto de la deuda pública sobre el crecimiento económico de Ecuador. Tomando en cuenta que la literatura en su mayoría demuestra que el excesivo endeudamiento público compromete el desempeño económico de los países en el largo plazo, por ello se aporta con evidencia actualizada sobre este tema. Con base a esto se utiliza econometría de series de tiempo implementando modelos de mínimos cuadrados ordinarios (MCO), un modelo de vectores autorregresivos (VAR) y técnicas de cointegración y causalidad.

In Ecuador, the income obtained from the exploitation of natural resources, especially hydrocarbons and minerals, have been consolidated as the basis of economic development, in turn, the lack of economic and technological resources, as many of the developing countries development, have caused these activities to be concessioner to foreign companies, causing a conflict of interest in which the economic benefit has exceeded environmental sustainability.

El proyecto se enfoca en evaluar estrategias de enfriamiento de un módulo de baterías de iones de litio de tipo cilíndricas para la prevención del sobrecalentamiento. Para el efecto se realizarán distintas simulaciones numéricas mediante herramientas de dinámica de fluidos computacional (CFD, por sus siglas en inglés).

A partir del marco legal vigente que faculta la planificación en el País con diferenciación en los Territorios Ancestrales –TA-, el presente artículo muestra cómo vincular las herramientas de planificación en los gobiernos cantonales para la implementación de las políticas públicas.